The NCAA doesn't want anybody to make money off the NCAA tournament except for … well, the NCAA and its corporate sponsors. Every year, Americans wager $10 billion on the NCAA tournament with only about 3 percent of that being legal, according to the American Gaming Association. So much money is being …

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand – It has not even been a week since a gunman spouting anti-immigrant hate stormed into two mosques here, killing 50 people and changing New Zealand forever. The funerals have only just started. Yet New Zealand has moved with astonishing speed to prevent this kind of mass shooting from …

Bridget McCain, the late Sen. Jon McCain’s youngest child, has publicly spoken out against President Donald Trump’s repeated attacks on her father for the first time. The 27-year-old has typically kept herself out of the …

Facebook on Thursday confirmed that it had improperly secured “hundreds of millions” of user’s passwords, leaving them open to be viewed by company employees. The unsecured passwords were discovered amid a “routine security review in January,” after which Facebook says it fixed the improper storage issue. The …

"As I said to @sbg1, to understand Trump 'you have to look at everything through the prism of his narcissism.' Once you do that, pretty much everything makes sense," the attorney said in another tweet, referring to the New Yorker's Susan Glasser. "He lies even when it makes no sense to lie. As one of his lawyers once told …

Apple’s stock is boosting the Dow. U.S. stocks rose Thursday on the back of a rally in the technology sector, while shares of Apple Inc. surged, putting the company on track to reclaim the crown as the largest company by market value. Gains come a day after the Federal Reserve signaled that it was unlikely to raise interest …

Flooding that has overwhelmed levees and swamped a wide swath of the Midwest since last week's bomb cyclone storm is creating a "slow-moving natural disaster" that could last into summer. While rivers are receding – for now – across parts of Nebraska, Wisconsin and Iowa, water draining downstream is causing …

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders were discussing Brexit delay options on Thursday evening, mulling an extension until May 7th but also considering one until the end of the year, or even leaving the date open for now, diplomatic sources said. They arrived for the summit in Brussels after British Prime Minister …

Weeks after a brand-new Lion Air 737 Max crashed in October, U.S. officials began probing the Federal Aviation Administration’s approval of a software system linked to the accident and why Boeing Co. didn’t …

Elizabeth Doerr is the editor-in-chief of online specialist watch magazine Quill & Pad. Despite Baselworld's sinking number of exhibitors -- three years ago it was 1,500, last year it was around 650, and now it is slightly more than 500 -- the Swiss fair remains the world's biggest physical showcase of new watches and one of …